SB 181- AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
05/09
SENATE BILL 181
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill:
I. Requires a battery operated ionization smoke alarm to include a "hush" mechanism and a 10-year battery.
II. Requires a battery operated photoelectric smoke alarm to include a 5-year battery.
III. Requires a 110 volt ionization smoke alarm to include a 10-year battery and a "hush" mechanism.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-1077
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to the manufacture, sale, or installation of certain smoke detectors.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Chapter; Manufacture, Sale, or Installation of Certain Smoke Detectors. Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 359-F the following new chapter:
CHAPTER 359-G
MANUFACTURE, SALE, OR INSTALLATION
359-G:1 Battery Operated Ionization Smoke Alarm. Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation who shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, trade, or install a single station battery operated ionization type smoke alarm shall include with the alarm a "hush" mechanism allowing a nuisance alarm to be silenced for a period not to exceed 15 minutes and a battery designed to last at least 10 years.
359-G:2 Battery Operated Photoelectric Smoke Alarm. Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation who shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, trade, or install a single station battery operated photoelectric type smoke alarm shall include with the alarm a battery designed to last at least 5 years.
359-G:3 Electric Ionization Smoke Alarm With Alternative Power Supply. Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation who shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, trade, or install a 110 volt powered ionization type smoke alarm, with an internal back up power supply within the detector's head, shall include with the alarm a battery designed to last at least 10 years and a "hush" mechanism allowing a nuisance alarm to be silenced for a period not to exceed 15 minutes.
359-G:4 Penalty. Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation who violates this chapter shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2002.